Word: onto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dawn darkness one day last week, an Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway mail train pulled off the main line and onto a siding about five miles south of the little cattle town of Springer, N. Mex., to let the Santa Fe's Los Angeles-bound streamliner, the Chief, roar past. As the mail train slid to a stop, Fireman Pete Camilo Caldarelli, 44, climbed down out of the locomotive and walked through the chill desert air to a switch up ahead. The job he had to do was one he had done many times in the past: stand...
...lights came sweeping out of the darkness, the mail train whistled on the siding, and Caldarelli suddenly raced across the track, opened two locks and threw the switch. The streamliner, instead of rushing past at 40 to 45 m.p.h. on the main line, roared into the open switch, onto the siding, and plowed head on into the mail train. One Pullman car, flung into the air by the force of the crash, dropped atop a dormitory car in which the Chief's dining-car employees were asleep; the next Pullman rammed into the crushed dormitory car from the rear...
...Pacific coast, last week's big soccer match promised special excitement. Aside from their sporting rivalry, Captain Jesus Rivera of the local sport club and Ricardo Ayala, captain of a team of workmen from the nearby railroad, were mortal enemies in private life. When they trotted onto the field, both were wearing unusual football equipment: long-barreled pistols...
Keyed up by corn liquor, the crowd watched the scoreless game tensely until the referee made a disputed decision: seconds later the pistols were drawn and machete-swinging spectators poured onto the field. In 20 minutes six were dead and six seriously injured. Police restored order, but the game could not go on. Rivera had been hacked to death and Ayala severely wounded by gunfire...
...Onto the campus of Southern Methodist University swarmed more than 4,000 members of the insurance section of the American Bar Association last week for their annual discussion of the latest techniques and trickeries of insurance legalistics. Their presence was one more reminder of how successful S.M.U.'s South western Legal Center has been in realizing the goal that Dean Robert Gerald Storey set for it five years ago: to become one of the foremost legal laboratories in the U.S. (TIME, April...